When Rory finally finished his story, Ayra sighed, "Dang, I missed all that? On the bright side, I also missed Lita. Anyway, you got a plan to save your friend once we get to forsaken fortress?" He got up in the middle of asking that question and walked back over to the barrel he had perched on when Rory had been brought in.

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Rory frowned, and began to feel a little nervous again. "No... I guess I don't." he replied. "I guess we'll just have to wait until we get there. I can only imagine what a wretched place with a wretched name can look like." He decided.

To Rory, that just added more questions. "Wait, I thought you were-" he was interrupted by a firm knock on the door.
"Heyyyy, new swabbie! You feelin' bettah yet? I understand if you're under the weather 'n' all, but I gots stuff for you to do!"
Rory sighed. "Oh well, I guess that's my queue. I'm feeling a bit better anyway, minus the constant rocking." He stretched his arms high and almost emitted a yawn, before hopping down from the bed. "You've been here for awhile too, haven't you? Don't you have anything to do around here too?" He asked.

"Yeah, I guess so..." Rory shrugged off the first thing he said, suspecting he was just a lazy crew member. He exited the sleeping quarter, remembering to close to door behind him, only to be face to face with another pirate he hadn't seen before.

Rory sighed, and began following Niko at a leisurely pace. "Lemme guess, mopping, dishwashing, latrine scrubbing, in that particular order?" he mumbled with a silent scoff. It was at that moment that he realized that Rory was beginning to feel like himself again.

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Niko laughed really loudly. His laugh was like everything you would imagine a pirate laugh to be. "Aye, no worries swabbie! That is my job! You'll see as soon as we arrive, aye?" Niko said continuing to walk. He went down another pair of stairs, entering a room with a huge hole with a bunch of crates in it. "Here we are!" Niko said, gesturing Rory to take a look.

Rory walked up to the edge, taking in the underwhelming view that was the seemingly almost empty room. He scratched his head, rather confused. "So... Uh... What am I supposed to be looking at here? Is this some sort of storage room?"

"Arr, but it's also for swabbies like you to take the pirate test! It's a bit doozy, so get read, I'll show you what to do." Niko said as he walked to a big, steel switch on the floor. The switch was slightly rusty, but not rusty enough to seem immovable.

"You watch everything I'm about to show you real careful-like so you can cram it into your no doubt mushy swabbiebrain!" Niko said, as he jumped on top of the button, raising platforms in the middle of the room. The platforms were arranged in a pattern from beginning to end, with a few corners and ropes with lanterns hanging from them in between some of the platforms, which previously looked like they were just for lighting. "That was step one, the easy part!" Niko said as he walked up to the edge. "Step two is... JUMPING!" He said as he jumped onto the center of the first platform. "Now we're gonna step it up a notch, swabbie! The next platform is too far, so we're gonna use the rope! I hope you don't have sweaty palms!" He said as he leaped towards the rope, grabbed onto it and released to drop himself onto the next platform. From there on, Niko finished the entire training until he reached the end of the room.

"Alright, now, here's the catch swabbie! The platforms won't stay up the whole time! You can reset the platforms using the other switch, but if you don't make it in time, you have to do everything all over again!" Niko said chuckling. "Now come on over, swabbie!"